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H.& TURNER.

- SuspendersQ No. 225,082.- Patented Mar. 2, I880.

N-PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. 0.0

* NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY TURNER AND WILLIAM TURNER, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

SUSPENDERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,082, dated March 2, 1880.

Application filed January 22, 1880. Patented in Canada, January 18, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HENRY TURNER and WILLIAM TURNER, both of the city and district of Montreal, Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pantaloon-Suspenders; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention has reference to improvements on pantaloon-suspen ders for the purpose of arranging them in such a manner that as nearly as possible an equal strain may fall upon each of the buttons by which the suspenders are attached to the pantaloons, no matter if the shoulders of the wearer are alternately raised the one above the other in the movements of the body, and at the same time form such suspenders in a manner enabling the user to get freely in and out of them when desired, or to with ease connect and disconnect them with the pantaloons during the day when necessity requires.

In all braces heretofore in use they either fail to arrange for all the motions of the body that is to say, the forward bend, the side bends or raising of one shoulder and the depression of the other, and the bends of the body which partake of a combination of the forward and side ben dor the previous inventions that do, in a measure, provide for these aforesaid bends form a very cumbersome harness, difficult to get in and out of, or difficult to attach to the pantaloons when said pantaloons are on the person.

In the drawing hereunto annexed similar letters of reference indicate like parts, and represent aplan of the suspenders as removed from the body and laid on a flat surface.

Letters B are loops for connecting with the front buttons of the pantaloons. These are attached one to a strap, A, which passes over the right shoulder and comes a short distance down the back, and the other to a similar strap, A, for the left shoulder. Although not shown in the drawing, each of these straps is provided with the ordinary means of adjusting their length within the limits ordinarily provided for. To the back extremities of these straps are attached pulleys G.

E is a fork-piece of the configuration shown, made preferably of similar material to the the drawing that it isuseless further to explain it in words.

Over each of the pulleys F a cord, G, is placed, as shown, each having at its extremities a loop, H and I. The loops H connect with buttons at the back of the pantaloons, while the loops I connect with buttons one on each side of the pantaloons.

From the above description, with the drawing, it is felt that the construction of the suspenders will be thoroughly understood.

We will now describe the action of the invention when applied to use. The loops B, H, and I having been attached to their respective buttons, as mentioned in the above description, if the wearer bends simply straight forward the cord L will remain stationary in the pulleys O and K, but the pulleys F will travel on the cords G, traveling toward. the

loops I in the operation of bending forward,-

and returning to their former position when the body is again straightened up, thus equalizin g the strain on all the buttons.

If the body of the user is bent sidewise, so that one shoulder is raised and the other correspondingly depressed without any forward bending or straightening of the body, the pulleys F remain stationary on the cords Gr; but the cord L Works in the pulleys G and K, lengthening its loop to the side on which the shoulder is raised and shortening it correspondingly on the side 'on whichthe shoulder is lowered, thus again equalizin g the strain upon the buttons.

Now, if a compound bend is madethat is, a bend partaking both of a forward and a side benda corresponding compound travel, if 5 r we may so call it, will take placeof the pulleys F on the cords G, and a traveling of the cord L through the pulleys G and K.

We do not pretend to say that supenders have not heretofore been invented which aecommodate and compensate similarly to the motions of the body; but we do pretend to say that all the suspenders heretofore in use that do this have never been provided with a single front end detachable from the front button, and it is this feature, in combination with the compensating feature, that forms the merit of our invention; for, in taking off the I pantaloons at night and putting them on in the morning, it is only necessary to disconnect the ends B B, and the whole harnessing is free from the body, whereas in the inventions similar to those for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted, under No. 194,616, to Thomas 0. Porter, and to B. J. Greely, No. 206,013, by undoing the loop of the front button the shoulderstraps are not altogether freed; and in inventions similar to Witnesses: v

CHARLES G. O. SIMPSON, E. W. H. PHILLIPS. 

